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Listen, right, this blogging platform is beautiful, and whilst it might take a bit longer to tweak to get the blog you want, it truly is the rightful home of art and creativity. Fuck Worpdpress, and - worse - Blogger. They're awful. However, the issue I find I have with Tumblr is this:

There seems be be a high proportion of Tumblr blogs that are simply people re-blogging (reposting from a feed on your home page) from other blogs. That isn't blogging, that's reblogging. Secondly becaue it's all high def photos and alike, people post so many images, as if that's some kind of substantial blog. Posting stills from a fucking movie IS POINTLESS. You hear me? POINTLESS.

Where's the cunting substance? And the last thing is that becasue you can "follow" eachother on tumblr (and it plays a much bigger role than the clunky Blogger following) peole start to desperately whore out their blog to everyone. It fucks me right off.

Basically, just because a blog looks nice and shows big photos off doesn't mean anyone wants to see your reblogged shit.

YEAH. I'm fully aware this will probably get zero replies, especially as it's been posted in the dead zone between the work and night shifts, but man alive I had to get that off my chest.

It's got more of a multi-media aspect. It's providing people more of the same stuff as Facebook but in an anonymous form. And it's designed to link into more sites so as to provide you with more microblogging ability from mobile devices.

i know what you mean about reblogging, it feels like it's just completely empty.
i have one and i'm trying to put a little more content on it along with what picture or link or video clip i put up but i'm failing. in part it's probably because i only have it because my flatmate wanted to see all the odd stuff i find on here/online and said it was the most convient place to put it all.

one problem i have is the complete lack of feedback in generations, apart from whoring yourself out to followers then you might as well be screaming into the void.

so if you're looking for substance and if you don't like people desperately whoring their blogs to followers, you should probably look somewhere else. If you are willing to look beyond the basic templates, and if you're willing to pay for hosting, Wordpress (.org rather than .com) is far and away the best.

But I love the lookand feel of tumblr. it's seriously sexy. But if we assuem that about 1/5 of all tumblr content is reblogged, they're just helping fill the net up with crap. One day, the interweb will be full up and we'll only have stills of Bring It On to look at until the end of humanity.

http://whitelikeheaven.tumblr.com/whilst I don't reblog content, I do possibly overuse pictures and other multimedia content, then again as Theo's already mentioned the focus on tumblr is mostly towards providing a platform for short form multi media posts rather than other more text oriented platforms.